plovr

A fork and npm wrapper of Plovr, the Closure (JS compiler) build tool.

We try to keep it reasonably up to date with the HEAD of each Closure project, but only after testing that it is compatible with our products. There may occasionally be changes introduced to work around temporary issues or to try out fixes in preparation of upstream patches.

Installing

npm install plovr
node_modules/.bin/plovr

What this is really doing is just grabbing a particular "blessed" (by this module) Plovr that we built from the Medium repos.

Note that Plovr requires a Java runtime to operate. It specifically assumes that there is a binary called java in the $PATH and will undoubtedly fail spectacularly if that's not the case.

Building your own

You will need:

Apache Ant
JDK7

Your environment will need to be set up such that

javac, java, and ant are on your path
JAVA7_HOME is set to the java /home directory (usually you can get this as JAVA7_HOME="$(/usr/libexec/java_home)"

Then you need to run

git clone git@github.com:Medium/plovr
cd plovr
./build-package.sh

Contributing

Questions, comments, bug reports, and pull requests are all welcome. We are happy to accept them at this project, but we encourage you to submit them to the main project.

Bug reports that include steps-to-reproduce (including code) are the best. Even better, make them in the form of pull requests.

Author

@nicks, supported by A Medium Corporation.

License